The Best Multi-Roaster Cafe In The World Is In Sea...

The 2015 World Barista Championship is popping off in the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, Washington. Exhibit Hall 4F is filled to the gills with eager baristas, beleaguered organizers, anxious well-wishers, stern security guards, and delicious complimentary cups of coffee. All the free coffee.

Perhaps the best multi-roaster coffee bar in the world is operating right now within Exhibit Hall 4F, and for the $15 price of WBC admission, you have access to fourteen complimentary quality coffees brewed eight different ways from an international pool of highly skilled volunteer baristas. We’re talking, of course, about the Marco Brew Bar.

“The Marco Brew Bar is special because you have a lot of coffees from around the world and you get to try so many different things,” bar manager and Counter Culture Coffee representative Bryan Duggan told us. When we questioned Duggan on what his favorite part of the bar has been, he told us, “meeting the people that make the coffee.”

When asked to point us to maybe a more eloquent volunteer, he introduced us to Malaysia AeroPress Champion Isaac Loh, founder of The Brew Orchestra in Johor Bahru. Loh brewed us a Kalita Wave of Square Mile Coffee‘s Ethiopia Reko. It was predictably delicious, and all the more so for being roasted in London, where Square Mile is based. It’s rare to see European & UK coffees here in North America, and that’s what makes pop-ups like the Marco Brew Bar special.

While brewing Loh told us his favorite part of volunteering at the MBB: “There’s so many awesome baristas from around the world here. My favorite part is learning from them, and tasting all the good coffee.”